United Nations

UN human rights experts today expressed alarm at a growing trend to enact legislation enabling access to medically assisted dying based largely on having a disability or disabling conditions, including in old age… Disability should never be a ground or justification to end someone’s life directly or indirectly… The experts also expressed concern at the lack of involvement of people with disabilities, as well their representative organizations, in drafting such legislation.”     ARPA.

 

"They [UN human rights experts] conclude, 'In sum, we are deeply concerned that the eligibility criteria set out in Bill C-7 [Assisted suicide expansion]… may be of a discriminatory nature, or have a discriminatory impact, as by singling out the suffering associated with disability as being of a different quality and kind than any other suffering, they potentially subject persons with disabilities to discrimination on account of such disability.'"-  Inclusion Canada, 2021.